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Geez the interactions are annoying they really ruined the battles. Especially Zorua and Bianca, honestly Bianca KNOCK IT OFF. Okay I found it amusing when you molested Langley thinking it was Zorua, but honestly sit down and shut up already. Or my foot's going to find its way to your BUTT.

Same goes for Cilan. SHUT THE HELL UP! Geez I kept thinking "Shut up and lose already" it's really, really annoying when a battle is going on and the characters won't shut up. Really ruined the battle.

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Anyway Snivy vs Pawniard was rather short, makes me wonder why they didn't just finish it in the previous episode. I guess they wanted to make a cliffhanger.

Snivy getting some small focus was really nice. LOL at Snivy Vine Whipping Burgundy out of the scene, LOL. Snivy can you do that more, to get people to shut up or to stop what they are doing.

I call B.S. on Luke beating Cilan. Granted I think Cilan losing was a "clever" way of shutting him up.

Cilan: It's TASTING TIM- Oh Shi- *Defeated* It's losing time.

However would it have KILLED the writers to give Larvesta solarbeam, I was actually expecting it but nope, just some flamethower attack. B.S. At least have Cilan lose because Larvesta used a super effective move against Stunfisk. Not burn it to a crisp, giving Cilan a chance to eat it.

I won't claim Iris beating Kenyan was B.S. but I still think its B.S. that Emolga was suddenly all willing to battle and listen to Iris even though Emolga got the crap beat out of her (which makes me say STOP GIVING IRIS PROBLEM POKEMON IF YOU AREN'T PLANNING ON DOING SOMETHING WITH IT). That small pep talk prior to the start of battle really must've done the trick.

Didn't really see Sawk losing but it was obvious. And I didn't get to see Ash send out Palpitoad and Dino send out Darumaka, disappointing.

ALSO Dino with Tranquill was the biggest pile of B.S. ever in this episode. My god writers if you have a hard on for Tranquill so much. LET ASH USE HIS.....MORONS!!!!! Tranquill better be the SOLE focus of BW047, that's all I'm going to say, and when I say SOLE focus, I mean Pikachu and Axew disappear for most of the episode.

Let's see if I missed something.

Oh right.

Tomioka why the FUDGE did you write this episode? You didn't create any plot points, you didn't really resolve anything. Nothing major happened in this episode AT ALL. What was the point of you writing this? I'd really prefer it, if you only wrote IMPORTANT episodes, you can write fun and or battle-y episodes too, but could you throw in SOMETHING important in?

Lol I think Luke was a little confused by Dento's overly dramatic rants. One moment they were happy the next moment they were insulted. That's Dento for ya'...our good ol' lovable guy of sparklez

“...This is a tricky problem, huh. I really, really want to see the other Heroes... and if it works out, I want to make friends with them! If I made friends with six Heroes, I’d be an awesome mage! We could even conquer the world!”

Okay, Bianca's Zorua stalking is getting really pointless and is taking up battle time. Bianca, please stop stalking that poor creature or else I will firebomb your house and shove Zorua's corpse down your throat until you suffocate. What's it going to be then, eh?

I liked the act that Cilan entered his "Serious mode" in his fight with luke. I love that insane grin that he gets when he fights. Poor Stunfisk, you shall be avenged!

I loved Langley's facial expressions in this episode, whoever animated this must have had lots of fun.

Emolga vs Sawk was pretty cool, and Palpitoad's being used again. Hooray!

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I understand Langley, but why was Cabernet so disappointed that Iris won? She doesn't seem to hold any grudge against her.

Probably because she is Dent friend or something XD, we had awesome interactions but some that came off as stupid like everyone being suprised Satoshi used Palpitoad(maybe this is the only one), that was freaking dumb, besides Iris and Dent and maybe Shooti due to the Palpitoad incident, I don't see why anyone else would act that way.

Finally watched the episode, like I though pretty good one like the other two, nice battles, all around, damn Sawk is so freaking cool.

Snivy vs Komatana(forgot the english name again), was obviously short, they got a lot of time in the last episode, it ended in this episode to build tension...the writers don't know mangascans are out when they are doing te episodes use your head a little instead of making commnets like that, it just served to build tension if we didn't know the ending, people would probably be thinking it could go either way.

I agree that they overdid it with Dent, I was like get over with it, I want to see the battle, I love his quirks but if they overuse it that much I agree it gets annoying, the battle was still cool and fun, Larvesta was a pretty nice to watch, Stunfisk too.

Again, characters >>>>> battles. This is a rule, not just in Pokemon, in anything. I'd rather have humorous character interaction than action-filled battles where the characters themselves mean squat.

Especially Zorua and Bianca, honestly Bianca KNOCK IT OFF.

THIS, however, I'll give you. This is the definite weak link in these Don Battle character interactions, with Bianca becoming increasingly less likable as it goes on. It's a running joke that's lost all humor fast.

Tomioka why the FUDGE did you write this episode? You didn't create any plot points, you didn't really resolve anything. Nothing major happened in this episode AT ALL. What was the point of you writing this? I'd really prefer it, if you only wrote IMPORTANT episodes, you can write fun and or battle-y episodes too, but could you throw in SOMETHING important in?

He practically only wrote "important" episodes back in Diamond/Pearl. Most of the "important" episodes were written by him. And most of them sucked and sucked hard. If the director's keeping him on a tight leash this time around, then I am definately fine with that.

Probably because she is Dent friend or something XD, we had awesome interactions but some that came off as stupid like everyone being suprised Satoshi used Palpitoad(maybe this is the only one), that was freaking dumb, besides Iris and Dent and maybe Shooti due to the Palpitoad incident, I don't see why anyone else would act that way.

I heard Langley mention both Ash, and Iris's name...so I guess they were disappointed that they both advanced to the semi's lol.

*random but just found out something* I think I figured out what was off about Dento's sparklez. They spammed it too much. It's not really Dento's fault, it's the animators. These backgrounds are pretty dull and don't have enough contrast in them and it takes away from Dento. So instead of it making him look like he shines, it just looks like a background with a lot of bubbles. The sparkles they use don't shine enough, they make them bigger and choppier and don't put the same quality as they do when there's an episode dedicated to him.

I did chuckle though when Dento hugged himself. That was pretty amusing. Just DON'T do what I did and watch it over and over again.

“...This is a tricky problem, huh. I really, really want to see the other Heroes... and if it works out, I want to make friends with them! If I made friends with six Heroes, I’d be an awesome mage! We could even conquer the world!”

Does anyone know what Iris was having Zoura-as-Langley do when Luke was filming it? I caught Zoura-Langley saying Iris' name, so I'm guessing she was pretending like Langley was endorsing Iris as the eventual winner of the tournament, but the real Langley and Bianca's interference screwed it up (prompting that "CUT! CUT! CUT!" from Iris. XD)

Langley vs Ash
~ It was already spoiled for mebut it was still nice to watch.
~ Sheesh Langley, Ash was being nice to you and you snub him? Witch.
~ Too be honest Snivy's food looked like droppings... brown and green...
~ LOL Snivy! So Snivy still holds a bit of a grudge against Burgundy! Can't blame her...
~ Why was Pikachu staring at Snivy while it was eating?

Luke vs Cilan
~ Oh wow Ash is the camera man while Pikachu is very careful with the camera.
~ Larvesta vs Stunfisk...
~ Cilan I like you but for the first time he kinda bored me, although I did chuckle when he hugged himself.
~ So far the only one of Cilan's Pokemon with a clean win-to-lose ratio is Dwebble, 2-0.
~ Hmm it seems like Burgundy and Langley don't get along very much, bummer.
~ The battle was kinda lacking too be honest too much talking!

Iris vs Kenyan
~ Why didn't Iris ever call Discharge? Why keep spamming Hidden Power?
~ How did Volt Switch work properly?
~ Close Combat? Wow why didn't they make its Defense/Sp.Def drop apply in DP, it would have been interesting to see Staraptor deal with that and Ash might have beaten Flint's Infernape.
~ Iris was clever in this match I have to admit.

Ash vs Dino
~ Palpitoad vs Darumaka? Should be a quick match, so that leaves time for Iris vs Luke and Ash vs Iris.

I use to watch the show back in the earlier 2000s and late '90s, but I stopped shortly after they introduced Dawn. I watched the Venipede episode in Castelia on YouTube a few weeks ago, but I haven't seen the anime in several years otherwise. Pardon my noobieness in this area of Pokemon, but was anyone in the show particularly concerned with the fact that that one kid had what is essentially a legendary Pokemon? Larvesta? I mean, since it evolves into Volcarona, which is specifically a legendary Pokemon as in a Pokemon with historical legends about it, surely someone with a Larvesta would be more interesting than an Emolga or a Stunfisk, right? Did anyone in the show make any kind of mention of it or were they all just kinda like "Oh, so-and-so has a Larvesta? Well of course, who doesn't have one of those?"

I thought this was an interesting episode. I enjoyed watching Bianca running around chasing Zorua since it was funny. Then Cilan's battle against Luke was a little more interesting than I had expected, although I do think that Cilan's whole "sparkly twirl" routine has gotten a bit old. I did like that he mentioned the Striaton City Gym though, and I also liked that he used Stunfisk instead of Dwebble or Pansage. I'm glad that Luke beat Cilan, and I loved that Burgundy was happy about it. Iris's battle against Kenyan was probably my favorite battle of the episode since Iris had Emolga use Attract in a clever way. I'm glad she won; she deserved some glory. 7/10.

Originally Posted by Tails_Sliat

Larvesta nor Volcarona are legendary.

Read his post again. He was saying that they have legends about them, not that they have legendary status.